by John Jackson Miller I’m off to New York Comicon (signing at the Dark Horse booth from 4-5 Friday, otherwise out and about, or at Marc Patten’s booth) — which will be the answer to your question “Where are the March figures?” Diamond has not released them at this writing, but I would expect them … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The new Overstreet Price Guide is out, the first with yours truly as an Overstreet advisor — previously I’d worked exclusively for the competition. (Maggie Thompson is in the Overstreet group as well now — things change). My first contribution is a feature on Star Wars comics history, getting a bit … Read more
by John Jackson Miller My Newsarama feature for the month appears here (with lots of cool historical comparatives), and the charts and graphs here are updated, as well. X-Force #1 led the top-selling comics list in February: TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES February 2008: 6.26 million copies Versus 1 year ago this month: -5% Versus … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Linkworthy: This resource on sales figures for the many weekly British comics series. A lot of stuff I hadn’t seen before, and definitely worth a look!
by John Jackson Miller One of my various hobby projects has been helping Maggie Thompson get her fanzine library established on her new MaggieThompson.com site. Harbinger #1 and Comic Art #1 from 1960 and 1961 respectively are there — and now, she’s posted the first ten issues of Newfangles from 1967 and 1968. Scan quality … Read more
by John Jackson Miller In a rare move, Diamond has done a full rerelease of statistics for January, addressing some of the curiosities noted in earlier posts below. Click to see my new calculations for January. It does appear Diamond included some orders in their initial report that aren’t in this one; unless they’re absolutely … Read more